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Noble Paul updated SOLR-2382:
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Attachment: SOLR-2382-entities.patch
With some clean up.
I think there is a very big omission. The EntityProcessorBase.transformers field is not used
in the latest patch. How do does transformation work?
> DIH Cache Improvements
> ----------------------
>
> Key: SOLR-2382
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2382
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: contrib - DataImportHandler
> Reporter: James Dyer
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: SOLR-2382-dihwriter.patch, SOLR-2382-dihwriter.patch, SOLR-2382-dihwriter.patch,
SOLR-2382-entities.patch, SOLR-2382-entities.patch, SOLR-2382-entities.patch, SOLR-2382-entities.patch,
SOLR-2382-entities.patch, SOLR-2382-entities.patch, SOLR-2382-entities.patch, SOLR-2382-entities.patch,
SOLR-2382-properties.patch, SOLR-2382-properties.patch, SOLR-2382-solrwriter-verbose-fix.patch,
SOLR-2382-solrwriter.patch, SOLR-2382-solrwriter.patch, SOLR-2382-solrwriter.patch, SOLR-2382.patch,
SOLR-2382.patch, SOLR-2382.patch, SOLR-2382.patch, SOLR-2382.patch, SOLR-2382.patch, SOLR-2382.patch,
SOLR-2382.patch
>
>
> Functionality:
> 1. Provide a pluggable caching framework for DIH so that users can choose a cache implementation
that best suits their data and application.
>
> 2. Provide a means to temporarily cache a child Entity's data without needing to create
a special cached implementation of the Entity Processor (such as CachedSqlEntityProcessor).
>
> 3. Provide a means to write the final (root entity) DIH output to a cache rather than
to Solr. Then provide a way for a subsequent DIH call to use the cache as an Entity input.
Also provide the ability to do delta updates on such persistent caches.
>
> 4. Provide the ability to partition data across multiple caches that can then be fed
back into DIH and indexed either to varying Solr Shards, or to the same Core in parallel.
> Use Cases:
> 1. We needed a flexible & scalable way to temporarily cache child-entity data prior
to joining to parent entities.
> - Using SqlEntityProcessor with Child Entities can cause an "n+1 select" problem.
> - CachedSqlEntityProcessor only supports an in-memory HashMap as a Caching mechanism
and does not scale.
> - There is no way to cache non-SQL inputs (ex: flat files, xml, etc).
>
> 2. We needed the ability to gather data from long-running entities by a process that
runs separate from our main indexing process.
>
> 3. We wanted the ability to do a delta import of only the entities that changed.
> - Lucene/Solr requires entire documents to be re-indexed, even if only a few fields
changed.
> - Our data comes from 50+ complex sql queries and/or flat files.
> - We do not want to incur overhead re-gathering all of this data if only 1 entity's
data changed.
> - Persistent DIH caches solve this problem.
>
> 4. We want the ability to index several documents in parallel (using 1.4.1, which did
not have the "threads" parameter).
>
> 5. In the future, we may need to use Shards, creating a need to easily partition our
source data into Shards.
> Implementation Details:
> 1. De-couple EntityProcessorBase from caching.
> - Created a new interface, DIHCache & two implementations:
> - SortedMapBackedCache - An in-memory cache, used as default with CachedSqlEntityProcessor
(now deprecated).
> - BerkleyBackedCache - A disk-backed cache, dependent on bdb-je, tested with je-4.1.6.jar
> - NOTE: the existing Lucene Contrib "db" project uses je-3.3.93.jar. I believe
this may be incompatible due to Generic Usage.
> - NOTE: I did not modify the ant script to automatically get this jar, so to use
or evaluate this patch, download bdb-je from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html
>
> 2. Allow Entity Processors to take a "cacheImpl" parameter to cause the entity data
to be cached (see EntityProcessorBase & DIHCacheProperties).
>
> 3. Partially De-couple SolrWriter from DocBuilder
> - Created a new interface DIHWriter, & two implementations:
> - SolrWriter (refactored)
> - DIHCacheWriter (allows DIH to write ultimately to a Cache).
>
> 4. Create a new Entity Processor, DIHCacheProcessor, which reads a persistent Cache
as DIH Entity Input.
>
> 5. Support a "partition" parameter with both DIHCacheWriter and DIHCacheProcessor to
allow for easy partitioning of source entity data.
>
> 6. Change the semantics of entity.destroy()
> - Previously, it was being called on each iteration of DocBuilder.buildDocument().
> - Now it is does one-time cleanup tasks (like closing or deleting a disk-backed cache)
once the entity processor is completed.
> - The only out-of-the-box entity processor that previously implemented destroy() was
LineEntitiyProcessor, so this is not a very invasive change.
> General Notes:
> We are near completion in converting our search functionality from a legacy search engine
to Solr. However, I found that DIH did not support caching to the level of our prior product's
data import utility. In order to get our data into Solr, I created these caching enhancements.
Because I believe this has broad application, and because we would like this feature to be
supported by the Community, I have front-ported this, enhanced, to Trunk. I have also added
unit tests and verified that all existing test cases pass. I believe this patch maintains
backwards-compatibility and would be a welcome addition to a future version of Solr.
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